Not a story, more a question.
For some reason, I like soda water and get through loads of it, to the point where Mrs Vertigo pointed out we weren't exactly helping that whole environmental thing by continually buying 2 litre bottles of the stuff (yes, we recycle them, but not buying them at all is better, right?)

Anyway, the upshot was that we bought a Sodastream. After getting over the initial retro 70's thing (btw, the 'flavours' are uniformly disgusting. Just the fizzy water for me thanks), a question has been scratching the back of my brainpan like a continual annoyance: can you Sodastream milk, what would it taste like and would it fuck up your Sodastream?

I think the result would be, yes, foul and absolutely. But I'd be interested if any b3tan has given it a go in the interests of scientific advancement.
(vertigo, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 15:45, 20 replies)

I heard someone say this the other day...
I can't remember where, but the answer was that it was the most foul concotion, ever.
(The Kwyjibo A big, dumb, balding North American ape., Thu 24 Jul 2008, 15:48, closed)

Something I've always wondered....
What happens if you put a fizzy drink in there?
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 15:49, closed)

Good God man!
Surely you'd destroy the world!
(vertigo, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 15:50, closed)

My dad had a Sodastream
I was happily holding down the button until the bursts of gas out of the little hole at the front stopped.

Little did I know that you were meant to press the button down once and release, and that the little hole at the front was the safety valve outlet. I'd emptied the entire canister by the time my dad came to see what I was doing!

Never did find another canister :(
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 15:53, closed)

i tried to make tea with lemonade
sadly the boiling process removes all bubbly properties, but the lemony tea is quite nice.
( monstrinho do biscoito teeeshurts = www.nogunarmy.com, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 15:54, closed)

Hah
I tried this on our family soda stream during the early 80's
I can confirm yes you can, yes it tastes odd, and the soda stream was still working fine afterwards.
Now soda streamed chocolate nesquick on the other hand....
( M o D, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 15:55, closed)

Not me personally,
But on Dave Gorman's Genius, they carbonated both custard AND Bovril, which was, er, interesting to say the least.
(LordMatthius http://www.justgiving.com/marathon-matt2009, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 15:59, closed)

You'd get something like this.


This is what happens when fish divide by zero.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 24 Jul 2008, 16:00, closed)

I wonder what would happen if...
*looks at SodaStream*

*looks at bottle of vodka*

...
( Cawl, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 16:01, closed)

I tried milk in a sodastream
Don't know what I did wrong, but I ended up covered in the stuff!
(Cow_Tipping_Samurai, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 16:02, closed)

^ Did you take it out
Of the cow first?
( Cawl, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 16:03, closed)

Hmm
As far as my scientific knowledge stretches (ie not far at all) it would be possible. Carbonation works when carbon dioxide dissolves into the water content of whatever you're carbonating so cow's milk, being about 88% water, would probably work for a bit. I'm inclined to suggest, however, that the fizziness would probably eventually curdle the milk.

Mmmmm...science!
(Coin Operated Boy is reading the new Bravissimo catalogue on, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 16:04, closed)

I believe this should be a newsletter question.
But I'm not doing it, no siree. The wife'd kill me.
(vertigo, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 16:16, closed)

Shampagne?
I've always wondered - if you sodastream white wine will you get champagne?
(I Love Your Shoes, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 16:47, closed)

Sodastream Champagne?
A thousand French vineyard owners have just shouted "Merde! Our secret is out!"
(vertigo, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 17:28, closed)

milkstream?
I got all nostalgic reading your post, so googled sodastream - and they actually made a 'milkstream' at one point - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodastream

sounds, um, lovely!
( ascorbate, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 19:26, closed)

Curdle
it would. Carbonated beverages are acidic. Acid curdles milk (see: orange juice and milk). It will be a disgusting fizzy curdy wheyey mess.
(Hippo_of_Doom, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 23:44, closed)

When I was 8-9 and Sodasteams were all the rage

There was a theory that if you sodastreamed milk and then drank it the resulting fizzy concoction would KILL you!! Some of the people at school (in the finest traditions of urban legends) even knew people who this had happened to - their cousin's mate etc etc.

Oddly, I related this tale of childhood stupidity to my ex and she looked at me with rightful scorn. Was this just a rumour that went around Nottingham, or even only my school?!?
(H K Phooey, Fri 25 Jul 2008, 17:32, closed)

Yes you can
It tastes like ... hmm, creamy perrier.

Unfortunately it also sort of explodes, so if you try this, only use a little bit of milk, not the massive amount I used when I was younger, coating the kitchen in fizzy milk.

I don't know why it exploded - maybe the fizz displaced the suspended fat at light speed?
(Adremus, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 19:40, closed)

This is an actual consumer product, in Iran
It's called Doogh, and it's basically a carbonated yoghurt and spring water drink. My Iranian was extremely limited on my first day in the country, and though the Lonely Planet had taught me the correct word for Milk (Su, I think, or is that Turkish?), when I walked into a shop where clearly nobody spoke a word of English, and there were bottles of milk in the fridge, I didn't think it worth the energy to have a conversation about them. Of course, the writing on the bottles was in Arabic, so I wouldn't have recognised the word. We put some in a cup of tea ten minutes later. Carbonated yoghurt in tea? Not ideal!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doogh
(Sammyhaswoefullyneglectedyou, Thu 31 Jul 2008, 9:17, closed)